CONGRESS TMC CLASHES

Kolkata: Congress local leader Sheikh Moktar, one of the accused in the sub inspector killing case in violence in Garden Reach area in south-west part of city on February 12, was arrested on Tuesday evening, a senior CID official said.
"We have arrested Sheikh Moktar from Howrah station area this evening....

Kolkata: A day after sacking the Kolkata Police Commissioner RK Pachnanda over the killing of a policeman during a TMCCongress clash, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has cracked the whip against her own colleague, Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim. Hakim has been stripped off his role as the party's...

Kolkata: Three days after campus violence rocked Kolkata's Garden Reach area and left a police subinspector dead, the State Governor himself has stepped into what is turning to be West Bengal's latest political row after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday transferred police commissioner Ranjit Kumar Pachnanda.
Mamata has justified the...

Kolkata: Two days after a policeman was shot dead during a clash between student activists, the West Bengal government on Thursday shifted out Kolkata police chief Ranjit Kumar Pachnanda for failure to apprehend the criminals, replacing him with Surajit Kar Purakayastha. While Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who also holds...

Kolkata: Two days after violence at Garden Reach claimed the life of a police officer, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said that the law would take its own course in the case. "Law will take its own course and my one line is enough," the chief minister,...